FL-28: Florida Democrats aim to put another GOP district in play
Businessman Hector Mujica announced Thursday that he would challenge Republican Rep. Carlos Gimenez in Florida’s 28th Congressional District, a Miami-area constituency Democrats hope to put in play if Donald Trump continues to alienate Latino voters.
Mujica, a longtime Google employee who most recently headed its Americas Philanthropy program, previously launched a bid for Senate last fall. That campaign didn’t generate much attention, but he’s predicting he’ll have much better luck in his new endeavor.
A day before he switched contests, Mujica’s team publicized an internal poll showing him trailing Gimenez by a 46-40 margin. That relatively narrow spread would represent a huge turnaround from 2024, when Gimenez defeated Navy veteran Phil Ehr 65-35 as Trump carried the 28th District 62-37.
But the two firms that conducted the poll early last month, EDGE Communications and MDW Communications, argued that Gimenez would be in for a very different race this fall. In a memo, the pollsters wrote that the congressman’s “nominal lead” was “built on a fragile foundation: a politically toxic environment for Republicans and a district where the defining issues — affordability and corruption — favor a challenger.”
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